1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,460 He may be seated. 2 00:00:01,460 --> 00:00:04,560 Are you thankful for our music ministry 3 00:00:04,560 --> 00:00:08,000 and all that they do to lead us towards the throne of God? 4 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:09,040 And we're just so excited about that. 5 00:00:09,040 --> 00:00:12,520 If you have your Bibles, Hebrews chapter number three, 6 00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:15,640 I am so excited to preach to you today 7 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:17,680 because of all that we're gonna find out 8 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:19,880 in Hebrews chapter number three. 9 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:23,840 It is a challenge sometimes to preach through Hebrews. 10 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:27,740 It is not a simple book, but it is rich. 11 00:00:27,740 --> 00:00:29,440 There is so much here. 12 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:31,480 And I want you to know that it can absolutely change your life. 13 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:36,040 Have you ever felt like you missed out on an opportunity? 14 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:39,560 Anybody ever been there? 15 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:44,560 Maybe it was an opportunity to get a job 16 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:47,600 that you thought maybe you should have gotten 17 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:49,720 and you didn't or maybe you didn't pursue something 18 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:51,760 that you should have in terms of a job. 19 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:56,760 Maybe it was a relationship that you should have invested in 20 00:00:56,760 --> 00:01:00,360 and it didn't work out or a friendship 21 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:03,160 that man, if you only had a few years, 22 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:04,720 maybe you didn't know someone was gonna leave 23 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:05,560 and then they left and you're like, 24 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:08,160 man, I wish I would have spent more time with them. 25 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:10,240 Maybe it was a business opportunity. 26 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:12,800 Maybe it was like a purchasing opportunity. 27 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:15,600 You had the chance to buy something. 28 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:18,320 Who would go back and if you could go back in a time machine 29 00:01:18,320 --> 00:01:19,640 and get a few baseball cards 30 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:21,760 that now would be worth something, right? 31 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:23,880 Or you had that mom that threw away your eyes. 32 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:25,520 I had a Mickey Man or a rookie card 33 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:27,920 of my mom threw it away or whatever. 34 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:30,080 I hear about that kind of thing all the time. 35 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:32,680 I've heard about situations where people had the opportunity 36 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:34,680 to invest in a company. 37 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:38,640 Like for instance, the guy who founded Atari. 38 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:40,560 Does anybody remember Atari? 39 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:43,880 The little joysticks and the, yeah, that was fun. 40 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:47,840 The guy who founded that had a guy named Nolan Bushnell 41 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:52,360 reportedly had the opportunity to invest $50,000 42 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:57,360 in seed money for an upcoming burgeoning company 43 00:01:57,480 --> 00:01:58,400 you may have heard of. 44 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:03,400 If this $50,000 would have made him a third owner 45 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:06,120 of this little company called Apple. 46 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:07,920 Have you ever heard of Apple? 47 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:12,920 Apple computers, which today is valued at over $2 trillion. 48 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:14,440 Could you imagine? 49 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:16,440 Who thought he missed out? 50 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:18,880 Yeah, anybody have any Atari stuff now? 51 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:20,600 Okay, not so much, right? 52 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:23,160 Talk about missing an opportunity. 53 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:25,280 None of us wanna miss out on an opportunity. 54 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:28,240 In fact, they call it, anybody heard of FOMO? 55 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:29,840 Fear of missing out? 56 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:32,520 That's something people talk about. 57 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:35,240 I feel like I've got an opportunity for you guys 58 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:36,320 and I'm not a salesman today. 59 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:37,240 That's not really what I'm, 60 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:39,960 I'm not trying to pitch a sale here. 61 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:46,480 Last week, we talked about in Hebrews chapter three 62 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:51,480 verses one to about verse six, 63 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:56,280 this idea that Jesus Christ, 64 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:58,760 and of course this is the theme of our series 65 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:01,640 as we go through Hebrews, Jesus is greater. 66 00:03:01,640 --> 00:03:04,320 Who agrees with me that Jesus is greater? 67 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:07,920 And what we saw and what I hope you came away with 68 00:03:07,920 --> 00:03:09,280 and if it's your first time here, 69 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:11,520 I'm gonna catch you up with where we're at. 70 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:14,360 Jesus is greater, Jesus is superior in every way. 71 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:15,560 What we talked about last week 72 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:16,960 because the text talked about it 73 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:19,760 is that Jesus is superior at transformation. 74 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:23,800 That not only can Jesus save us, okay, 75 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:27,000 from our sin, from the effects of our sin, 76 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:29,040 from what it means to be lost 77 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:31,120 and without Christ, without hope, 78 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:33,120 there is a heaven to gain and a hell to shun. 79 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:34,640 You understand that. 80 00:03:34,640 --> 00:03:38,200 Hell is real, eternal conscious torment. 81 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:40,600 Did that just ruin your day? 82 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:43,120 That's a real thing. 83 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:46,560 Heaven is real and he is not willing 84 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:50,800 that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. 85 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:52,440 Okay, that's really good. 86 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:57,440 But not only does God wanna use Jesus Christ to save us, 87 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:00,760 Jesus wants to transform us. 88 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:04,880 In the Old Testament, God dwelt among his people, 89 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:06,720 there was a house that Moses built, 90 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:08,680 what was it we talked about last week? 91 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:12,440 Moses in the Old Testament had a house. 92 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:15,240 It was the people of God and all the law of God 93 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:17,560 and the services of God and the people of God. 94 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:20,040 There was literally the tabernacle of God 95 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:22,720 where the sacrificial system would happen 96 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:26,200 and once a year a priest would go into the Holy of Holies 97 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:29,600 and he would sprinkle the blood of a spotless lamb 98 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:31,800 on the mercy seat and he's the only one 99 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:35,840 that could go in once a year because that was a place 100 00:04:35,840 --> 00:04:37,640 where the manifest presence of God was. 101 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:39,960 And to go and stand before God 102 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:41,840 to do that unrighteously or unholy, 103 00:04:41,840 --> 00:04:43,320 you would literally die. 104 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:44,920 And so they literally, that's what would happen. 105 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:46,960 And so there was this house, a place where God built. 106 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:50,880 And what we learned last week is that Jesus also builds 107 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:53,400 a house and there's this amazing verse. 108 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:58,400 Look at verse number, chapter three, verse number six. 109 00:04:58,840 --> 00:04:59,760 I love this. 110 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:05,800 But Christ is the son of his own house whose house are we. 111 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:09,840 We're his house. 112 00:05:09,840 --> 00:05:12,360 He comes to live inside of us. 113 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:15,000 Anybody ever have a hard time changing yourself? 114 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:19,440 You know how I know you do? 115 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:21,980 One word, scale. 116 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:26,120 You guys have a scale at your house? 117 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:30,840 Some of you are like, no, I gave up on that years ago. 118 00:05:30,840 --> 00:05:32,360 Right? 119 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:33,360 It's hard to change. 120 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:35,760 Who here agrees it's hard to change? 121 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:37,600 God can do it in us. 122 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:38,920 He comes and lives inside of us 123 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:40,960 and changes us from the inside out. 124 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:44,560 No, only does God want to give us the opportunity 125 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:47,200 to have our sins forgiven and be made right with him 126 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:49,800 to spend eternity with him forever. 127 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:52,720 He also wants to grow us into what he wants us to be. 128 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:57,560 He wants us to have an abundant, transformed life. 129 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:00,520 I want you walking away from last week's message 130 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:02,960 and this week's message, knowing this, 131 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:07,040 that to be saved, you don't have to clean up to get saved. 132 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:12,440 Salvation is what begins the cleaning up process. 133 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:14,200 God gives you his righteousness 134 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:15,560 and he takes away your sin. 135 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:16,700 I'm excited about that. 136 00:06:16,700 --> 00:06:18,360 But God loves you so much 137 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:20,600 that he doesn't want to leave you like you are. 138 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:21,800 He wants you to grow. 139 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:23,120 He wants you to change. 140 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:24,840 He wants you to be transformed. 141 00:06:24,840 --> 00:06:26,880 And I want you feeling this, okay? 142 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:29,000 I want you to feel this this morning. 143 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:31,280 That's the best life you could ever have. 144 00:06:31,280 --> 00:06:32,720 Amen. 145 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:35,680 To have a life that is full of the Holy Spirit, 146 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:39,360 full of Jesus, full of all that God wants for you. 147 00:06:40,280 --> 00:06:41,600 That's what God wants for you. 148 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:44,700 Don't be content just to be saved in a 10 church. 149 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:47,960 God wants so much more for you than that. 150 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:50,000 He wants to grow you into who he wants to be. 151 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:51,960 And then he wants to not dismiss you 152 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:56,600 but send you out to make a difference in the lives of people. 153 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:58,600 That's what God's called us to do. 154 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:00,560 This doesn't mean that in this life, 155 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:03,000 God's plan is for everyone to have prosperity. 156 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:07,320 I am not pitching you material prosperity. 157 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:10,720 In fact, sometimes having a victorious Christian life 158 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:13,640 means that you miss out on the things 159 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:15,280 that won't satisfy you anyway. 160 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:20,920 Sometimes, sometimes it takes sacrifice. 161 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:24,440 In fact, Jesus says, if any man want to come after me, 162 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:26,680 let him deny himself. 163 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:28,560 Take up his cross and follow me. 164 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:32,800 But God does want us to fully realize what it means 165 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:37,400 to have a victorious, mature, abundant spiritual life 166 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:39,840 and relationship with him. 167 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:44,840 Jesus is incredible at transformation 168 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:46,460 but there's something that will keep us 169 00:07:46,460 --> 00:07:47,860 from being transformed. 170 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:53,360 There is something that will keep us 171 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:57,920 from this abundant, victorious Christian life. 172 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:00,760 Something that will keep us from the promised land, 173 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:01,600 as it will. 174 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:06,680 And that is what the Holy Spirit warns us about 175 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:08,700 in today's text. 176 00:08:08,700 --> 00:08:11,520 This week, we're gonna study the rest of the chapter. 177 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:14,800 Last week, we learned that Jesus is great at transformation 178 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:18,280 because he showed us how he was compared to Moses. 179 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:20,360 The law could not transform us. 180 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:24,520 The law pointed out where we were wrong. 181 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:27,200 Pointed out, anybody try to keep the rules 182 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:28,680 and realize just cause I have rules, 183 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:31,640 doesn't mean I keep them, right? 184 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:35,080 Jesus shows up and he transforms us from the inside out. 185 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:36,920 And we're gonna study the rest of the chapter 186 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:38,680 and find out about what can keep us 187 00:08:38,680 --> 00:08:41,000 from this incredible transformation 188 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:43,000 God wants to make in our lives. 189 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:47,100 I don't want you and I definitely don't want me 190 00:08:47,100 --> 00:08:50,300 to miss out on all that God has for me. 191 00:08:50,300 --> 00:08:51,760 I don't want that. 192 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:52,840 I'm not talking about heaven, 193 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:57,060 I'm talking about this mature, abundant spiritual life. 194 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:00,400 So because Jesus is greater at transformation, 195 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:04,600 we can partake in the transformed Christian life by faith 196 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:06,560 when we observe and obey three sections 197 00:09:06,560 --> 00:09:09,120 that we're gonna see here in Hebrews chapter three, 198 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:10,200 verse number seven. 199 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:12,080 So we're gonna, I'm gonna lay this out for you. 200 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:14,960 If you have a bulletin, there's an outline in the middle 201 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:18,480 that'll help you walk us through this particular text, okay? 202 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:21,460 So let's look at Hebrews chapter three. 203 00:09:21,460 --> 00:09:23,280 And in fact, what I'm gonna do, 204 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:25,400 because we read Psalm 95, 205 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:27,900 what you're gonna find out is gonna be important. 206 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:32,280 I wanna read this part, Hebrews chapter three, 207 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:33,640 and then come back to it. 208 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:36,400 So if you have your Bibles, Hebrews chapter three, 209 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:38,720 looking starting in verse number seven. 210 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:43,400 Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost say it, 211 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:45,520 today if you will hear his voice, 212 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:48,640 harden not your hearts as in the provocation 213 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:50,480 in the day of temptation and the wilderness, 214 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:53,040 when your father's tempted me, proved me, 215 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:55,120 and saw my works 40 years. 216 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:58,480 Wherefore, I was grieved with that generation 217 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:01,000 and said they do always err in their heart, 218 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:02,680 and they have not known my ways, 219 00:10:02,680 --> 00:10:07,080 so I swear in my wrath, they shall not enter into my rest. 220 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:08,640 Take heed, brethren. 221 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:12,380 Take heed, brethren. 222 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:18,720 Lest there be in any of you an evil heart of what? 223 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:20,200 What? 224 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:21,760 Unbelief. 225 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:24,760 In departing from the holy God, from the living God, 226 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:28,160 but exhort one another daily, 227 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:29,960 while it's called today, 228 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:33,680 lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin, 229 00:10:33,680 --> 00:10:37,800 for we are made partakers of Christ 230 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:39,680 if we hold the beginning of our confidence, 231 00:10:39,680 --> 00:10:41,400 said fast unto the end. 232 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:46,400 While it is said, today if you will hear his voice, 233 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:50,800 harden not your hearts as in the provocation. 234 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:55,800 God, we wanna have hearts that are softened towards you. 235 00:10:55,880 --> 00:10:59,080 We wanna have hearts that are pliable and flexible 236 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:02,320 and open to the transformation that your spirit 237 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:04,640 and your son wanna do inside of us. 238 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:07,200 God, I pray that if there's someone here 239 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:10,040 that doesn't have that, that they would be encouraged today 240 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:13,160 while it's called today to not harden their hearts, 241 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:14,880 to not regard sin in their hearts, 242 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:17,440 to repent of that and to turn to you by faith, 243 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:20,120 to let you transform us from the inside out. 244 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:22,680 God, may you bless the reading of your word 245 00:11:22,680 --> 00:11:24,760 and help me not to get in the way today. 246 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:26,880 In Jesus' name, amen. 247 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:32,440 So I wanna break this up, this passage, 248 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:34,440 into three parts, three sections. 249 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:38,400 The first section is a familiar illustration, 250 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:40,880 a familiar illustration. 251 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:45,240 In verse seven, you see him say wherefore, 252 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:47,680 and of course, whenever you say wherefore, 253 00:11:47,680 --> 00:11:51,240 he's always referring back to what he's already said. 254 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:54,960 And what he's already said is, Jesus is greater than Moses. 255 00:11:56,240 --> 00:12:00,120 Jesus is greater than Moses, he has a better house. 256 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:02,520 We've already talked about that 257 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:04,320 a little bit in the introduction. 258 00:12:04,320 --> 00:12:06,600 And so because Jesus is better than Moses 259 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:08,920 and because God wants to come and dwell less, 260 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:13,040 because we're God's house, now he gives us a warning 261 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:16,360 and he does it by quoting 262 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:20,960 Psalm 95 verses seven through 11. 263 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:23,160 There's a parentheses in our English version. 264 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:25,480 It says wherefore, and then he says, 265 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:27,200 do you see what it says here? 266 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:29,520 Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost says, 267 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:31,360 I think that's an interesting thing, 268 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:33,680 he says, as the Holy Ghost says, 269 00:12:33,680 --> 00:12:36,040 and then he goes on to quote almost verbatim, 270 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:40,440 Psalm 95, at the end part, you guys saw that? 271 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:42,440 You guys see that that's the same thing? 272 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:45,600 Now that's an interesting thing. 273 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:49,240 The Psalm had a human writer, but here, 274 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:53,320 Hebrews says, as the Holy Ghost sayeth, 275 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:56,160 and I just wanna take this moment to say, 276 00:12:56,160 --> 00:12:59,280 the Bible says about itself that this is God's word, 277 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:01,320 not just the word of mere man. 278 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:03,000 So the Holy Ghost said it in the Psalm. 279 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:05,160 Now it's interesting, the Psalms, 280 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:10,160 were the hymn book, the song book of the Jewish people. 281 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:14,040 And so when he got into this particular section, 282 00:13:14,040 --> 00:13:16,880 this book, Hebrews, is written to Jewish people, 283 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:20,280 and as he would have begun to quote this verse, 284 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:21,720 here's what I want you to think. 285 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:26,000 If I were to say to you, quote to you, 286 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:27,960 what can wash away my sin? 287 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:29,600 Nothing but the blood of Jesus. 288 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:32,040 What can make me whole again? 289 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:36,120 Nothing but the, how many of you guys heard a melody in your head? 290 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:37,440 You heard it? 291 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:38,960 Because you've been in church a long time. 292 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:41,800 If you've been in a conservative church 293 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:44,520 in the last 100 years in America, that's a great song, 294 00:13:44,520 --> 00:13:47,160 and when you hear the lyric, you think of the song. 295 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:50,160 That's what they would have done when they were reading this. 296 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:52,080 This would have been a Psalm that they would have sung. 297 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:54,520 They would have had this, a lot of them memorized, 298 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:56,560 because it would have been something they sung in worship. 299 00:13:56,560 --> 00:14:00,480 And it was a Psalm that referred back to 300 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:03,840 this really familiar illustration about Moses. 301 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:05,680 We're still talking about Moses. 302 00:14:05,680 --> 00:14:07,640 We're still talking about the children of Israel. 303 00:14:07,640 --> 00:14:08,680 And he says, 304 00:14:08,680 --> 00:14:12,760 wherefore this little parenthesis gives this illustration. 305 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:17,040 Because God, because Jesus is better, 306 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:20,560 and because he has a better house and we're in his house, 307 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:22,880 I want you to remember, Hebrews says, 308 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:25,520 the author of Hebrews says, and the Holy Ghost says, 309 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:27,520 this little illustration. 310 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:32,240 There was a time where God wanted to give something 311 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:34,800 and do something in the heart of his people. 312 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:37,440 And they missed out on it. 313 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:40,680 Do you get it? 314 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:46,800 The Holy Spirit inspired lyrics called us 315 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:50,640 to a bad example, not to do what they did. 316 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:52,920 Now to give you this illustration, 317 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:55,280 I want to give us a framework. 318 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:57,280 They're gonna talk about how the Jews responded, 319 00:14:57,280 --> 00:14:58,600 and then how God responded. 320 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:00,800 That's what he talks about in these verses. 321 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:05,040 The framework is given by three phrases in this text. 322 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:06,160 This framework is this. 323 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:10,380 First you see these three little words out of Egypt. 324 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:13,560 You'll see that in chapter three. 325 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:18,420 Let's see, verse 16. 326 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:22,400 For some, when they had heard it, did provoke, 327 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:25,920 how be it not all that came, do you see it? 328 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:27,160 Out of Egypt. 329 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:28,000 You see that? 330 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:31,880 That's the first location in these passages 331 00:15:31,880 --> 00:15:34,640 that talk about, he's given this illustration. 332 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:37,520 So you remember the story, don't you? 333 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:42,400 The Jews started as a family. 334 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:45,320 Abraham had Isaac, Isaac had Jacob, Jacob had Judah, 335 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:47,160 and all of his family. 336 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:49,200 One of those was Moses, I'm sorry. 337 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:53,160 One of them was Joseph. 338 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:56,040 Joseph got sold into slavery. 339 00:15:56,040 --> 00:15:58,520 There was a great famine, God used Joseph, 340 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:01,880 and all that happened there to get his family to Egypt. 341 00:16:01,880 --> 00:16:05,720 That family grew like God said it would to Abraham. 342 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:09,840 That that nation would become like the sand of the seashore, 343 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:11,560 like the stars of the night sky. 344 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:13,960 And they grew and grew and grew, 345 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:16,880 and there arose a Pharaoh that knew not Joseph. 346 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:19,360 He put them into Boddhid in Egypt. 347 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:22,840 Then God sent a guy named Moses, 348 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:26,400 first in a basket that went along the Nile River 349 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:29,800 and that princess that drew him up out of the water. 350 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:31,200 God did that, by the way. 351 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:34,680 And then God used him and worked in his life 352 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:37,040 to get into the place where then he sent him back to them 353 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:40,480 as a deliverer, tellin' Pharaoh, let my people go. 354 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:43,080 10 plagues came, who guys remember the story? 355 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:45,400 Am I, do I repeat myself? 356 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:46,400 Okay. 357 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:49,640 They get taken out of this bondage 358 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:53,640 and then they go secondly into where? 359 00:16:53,640 --> 00:16:55,480 Into the wilderness. 360 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:59,280 You'll find that mentioned in verse number eight. 361 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:01,440 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, 362 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:03,320 in the day of temptation. 363 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:04,960 Do you see the phrase there? 364 00:17:04,960 --> 00:17:07,540 In the wilderness. 365 00:17:09,120 --> 00:17:11,320 If you've read the story told us in Exodus, 366 00:17:11,320 --> 00:17:12,600 you know that the children of Israel 367 00:17:12,600 --> 00:17:14,360 were in bondage in Egypt. 368 00:17:14,360 --> 00:17:18,160 God sent Moses with them and with him the plagues 369 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:20,680 to motivate the Egyptians to let my people go. 370 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:23,240 That's exactly what happened and God led this people 371 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:25,240 out of Egypt. 372 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:26,840 Once they were out of Egypt, 373 00:17:26,840 --> 00:17:29,340 they found themselves in the wilderness. 374 00:17:29,340 --> 00:17:33,240 You'll see that location, again, mentioned in verse eight. 375 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:36,680 The last location you'll see mentioned is in verse 11. 376 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:37,760 You see it? 377 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:42,760 So I swear in my wrath, they shall not enter into my, 378 00:17:44,360 --> 00:17:46,000 what does it say? 379 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:48,400 Into my rest. 380 00:17:49,760 --> 00:17:51,920 Now take a moment with me as we think about this passage 381 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:55,280 and this illustration to think about who is being addressed. 382 00:17:55,280 --> 00:17:57,600 In the first verse of the chapter, 383 00:17:57,600 --> 00:18:00,280 back in chapter three, verse one, 384 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:03,720 he says, wherefore, who is he addressing? 385 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:06,800 Holy brethren, you see that? 386 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:12,840 Our holy brethren, Christians, people who are saved, 387 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:16,680 down in verse number 12, take heed, 388 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:20,200 what does it say? 389 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:24,680 Brethren, it is my deduction 390 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:26,680 that he's still talking to saved people. 391 00:18:27,560 --> 00:18:29,400 Okay, he's talking to saved people. 392 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:35,240 These are people who have Jesus Christ as their profession. 393 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:37,120 It says in verse 12, right? 394 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:41,440 He says, as it says in verse one, 395 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:42,960 consider the apostle and high priest 396 00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:46,560 of our profession, Christ Jesus. 397 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:48,560 These are people who have Jesus Christ as their profession. 398 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:51,120 In verse 12, brethren are mentioned again. 399 00:18:51,120 --> 00:18:53,640 These are not just people who are brethren by nationality, 400 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:56,360 but through faith in Jesus Christ. 401 00:18:56,360 --> 00:18:58,760 These are the sons and daughters of God the Father 402 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:01,280 and the brothers and sisters of Jesus Christ. 403 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:04,560 So then you have that third phrase, into my rest. 404 00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:06,840 The phrase into my rest is a reference 405 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:10,720 to the children of Israel going into the land of Canaan. 406 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:13,520 God delivered Israel out of Egypt 407 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:18,520 in order that they might go into Canaan, into rest. 408 00:19:19,120 --> 00:19:23,040 So into rest here is a reference to the land of Canaan, 409 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:24,120 the promised land. 410 00:19:24,120 --> 00:19:26,560 Do you guys remember what they said about Canaan? 411 00:19:26,560 --> 00:19:28,480 It's a land that's flowing with, 412 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:33,720 sounds sticky, as Veggie Tales told us, right? 413 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:37,480 It's a reference to this amazing land. 414 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:41,000 It's this land that's flowing with milk and honey. 415 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:43,440 As Joshua and Caleb entered into that land 416 00:19:43,440 --> 00:19:45,040 with those spies, they saw, 417 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:47,680 they had these huge grapes and huge fruit. 418 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:50,280 And they said this certainly is a good land. 419 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:52,600 Nobody denied that it was an incredible land. 420 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:58,040 This little phrase represents what I call here, not heaven, 421 00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:01,080 but the victorious Christian life. 422 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:06,640 The abundant, fruitful Christian life. 423 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:08,400 Canaan land is not heaven. 424 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:10,840 We have sung many beautiful songs about heaven. 425 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:11,680 Many of them are good. 426 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:14,120 In our hymnals, there are songs that talk about Canaan land 427 00:20:14,120 --> 00:20:15,920 and refer to it as heaven. 428 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:17,720 And I believe that as you study here, 429 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:19,800 this is not representative of heaven. 430 00:20:21,360 --> 00:20:22,720 When you study the children of Israel 431 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:24,520 and when they went into the land of Canaan, 432 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:26,520 you'll find that there were battles there. 433 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:29,160 When you and I get to heaven, 434 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:32,120 we'll study war no more. 435 00:20:32,120 --> 00:20:34,000 There's no more war in heaven. 436 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:37,000 There's no war in the new heaven and the new earth. 437 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:38,680 Who's excited about that? 438 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:41,000 This is a good deal for us. 439 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:43,080 We'll lay our war instruments down. 440 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:46,880 Canaan here represents this victorious Christian life. 441 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:48,080 There are battles in the Christian life, 442 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:50,680 but those battles are won through faith. 443 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:52,720 The Bible says in 1 John 5.4, 444 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:54,960 this is the victory that overcomeeth the world, 445 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:56,920 even our faith. 446 00:20:56,920 --> 00:21:00,560 So, into rest represents this abundant, 447 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:04,920 abundant, transformed Christian life. 448 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:07,840 Out of Egypt represents salvation. 449 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:10,720 The phrase in the wilderness occurs in the 17th verse. 450 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:12,320 You see it verse 17, 451 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:14,040 but with whom he was grieved 40 years, 452 00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:15,880 was it not them that had sinned, 453 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:19,120 whose carcasses fell in the wilderness? 454 00:21:19,120 --> 00:21:21,920 The wilderness was between Egypt and Canaan. 455 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:24,400 The children of Israel journeyed for 40 years 456 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:26,440 in that wilderness. 457 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:29,760 It's called the wilderness wondering. 458 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:32,120 That phrase in the wilderness represents the life, 459 00:21:32,120 --> 00:21:33,840 I believe, of a defeated believer. 460 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:37,440 It's a believer who's saved, they're out of Egypt, 461 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:41,840 but they're living a defeated, miserable, wasted life. 462 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:43,640 In my estimation, 463 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:46,040 some of the most miserable people on this planet 464 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:47,760 are people who are saved, 465 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:51,000 but have never grown, 466 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:56,000 who are living a life devoid of all that God wants them to have. 467 00:21:57,400 --> 00:21:58,560 So, those are the parameters. 468 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:00,440 The three phrases that organize this passage 469 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:01,920 of scripture with for us. 470 00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:04,600 This passage of scripture is saying that it's possible 471 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:08,120 for someone to be saved, redeemed by the blood, 472 00:22:08,120 --> 00:22:11,640 yet now have, now not have that victorious, 473 00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:16,480 overcoming Christian life that God wants for us to have. 474 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:19,520 And some of us find ourselves in those two places. 475 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:22,680 Sometimes we find ourselves in Canaan land, 476 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:24,160 in the promised land, walking with God, 477 00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:25,000 doing what we ought to do, 478 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,520 and sometimes we find ourselves wandering 479 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:28,680 in the wilderness. 480 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:31,640 A spiritual Christian is a Canaan Christian. 481 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:34,440 A carnal Christian is a wilderness Christian. 482 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:36,400 That's what he's talking about in these verses. 483 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:38,440 He uses this Old Testament experience 484 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:41,120 of the children of Israel being in the wilderness 485 00:22:41,120 --> 00:22:44,440 as a wandering, a caution to these Christians in his day 486 00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:46,760 and by the Holy Spirit to you and me today, 487 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:49,880 that we not be content just to be saved 488 00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:52,240 and never grow and never mature 489 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:55,400 and develop into becoming what God wants us to be. 490 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:57,960 It is this overcoming, the victorious, the productive 491 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:01,840 and fruitful Christian life that God wants us to have. 492 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:03,400 So that's the framework. 493 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:05,920 Now let's look at this story, okay? 494 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:06,760 Let's look at the story. 495 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:09,080 Look at verse seven. 496 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:11,680 First we see that the Jews rebelled. 497 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:13,320 The Jews rebelled. 498 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:16,280 He says, harden not your hearts. 499 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:20,200 This is the diagnosis of the Holy Spirit 500 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:21,880 that he made of the people of God 501 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:23,840 who believed enough to make it out of Egypt 502 00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:25,760 but not enough to go into Canaan. 503 00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:28,440 He says, harden not your hearts 504 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:32,280 as in the day of provocation. 505 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:34,120 Provocation means to provoke. 506 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:37,280 The problem that the Israelites had 507 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:38,680 is they provoked God. 508 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:43,160 They had a problem in their hearts. 509 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:46,840 They had wrong motivations, wrong attitudes, wrong intentions. 510 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:50,080 Behavior always flows from the heart. 511 00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:52,360 The children of Israel had a problem. 512 00:23:52,360 --> 00:23:54,480 Specifically the word here is xclaruno 513 00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:56,560 and it means to harden or to make stubborn. 514 00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:58,960 They were resistant to God. 515 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:02,240 He said they were in a time of temptation or testing 516 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:03,560 and they tempted God. 517 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:05,000 The idea is that they tried God. 518 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:07,080 They resisted him because of the stubbornness 519 00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:08,160 of their hearts. 520 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:12,180 The Bible says that our behavior always follows our heart. 521 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:14,000 Jesus said it this way, 522 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,160 if we're out of the abundance of the heart, 523 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:19,640 what, the mouth speaks. 524 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:21,680 Out of the abundance of the heart, 525 00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:23,600 the fingers tight. 526 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:25,680 Out of the abundance of the heart, 527 00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:27,680 the feet go, the hands make. 528 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:31,000 Whatever comes in here will come out here. 529 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:36,120 What you do will show up because of who you are. 530 00:24:36,120 --> 00:24:41,040 How did the children of Israel come to have a hardened heart? 531 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:45,540 Verse 12 says they had an evil heart of unbelief. 532 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:47,760 How did their heart grow hard? 533 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:49,880 In unbelief. 534 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:53,760 Verse 18, and to whom swear he 535 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:55,600 that they should not enter in his rest, 536 00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:57,560 but to them that what? 537 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:00,320 Believed not. 538 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:02,320 Verse 19, you see it. 539 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:05,080 So we see that they could not enter 540 00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:07,360 in because of what? 541 00:25:07,360 --> 00:25:08,640 Unbelief. 542 00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:11,120 The first step towards a hard heart 543 00:25:11,120 --> 00:25:13,120 is to have an unbelieving heart. 544 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:16,200 An unbelieving heart. 545 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:21,200 God wants to be people of faith. 546 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:25,120 The just shall live by faith. 547 00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:27,960 We're not just saved by faith. 548 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:31,760 We're sanctified by faith. 549 00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:33,560 We're not just saved by faith. 550 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:35,160 We grow by faith. 551 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:37,640 We're not just saved by faith. 552 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:40,000 We live by faith. 553 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:41,120 Faith in who? 554 00:25:41,120 --> 00:25:42,360 Faith in God. 555 00:25:42,360 --> 00:25:44,880 Faith in God. 556 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:48,720 The problem they had was an unbelieving heart. 557 00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:49,680 It's always a heart. 558 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:52,680 God had miraculously delivered the children of Israel. 559 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:53,640 Think about it. 560 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:55,240 When they entered into that wilderness, 561 00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:58,160 God didn't mean for them to stay but just a few months. 562 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:01,800 It was supposed to be just a passageway 563 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:03,440 to get them into Canaan. 564 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:05,920 God had delivered them out of the land of Egypt. 565 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:07,760 He had delivered them from the death angel 566 00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:10,080 by the Passover lamb. 567 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:12,520 When they came to the Red Sea, God had miraculously 568 00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:14,360 opened up the Red Sea. 569 00:26:14,360 --> 00:26:16,200 They walked through the sea on dry ground 570 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:18,800 and God delivered them from Pharaoh and his armies. 571 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:22,200 God gave them a glory cloud to guide them in the day 572 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:24,240 and at night he gave them a pillar of fire. 573 00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:26,840 God fed them with angels food. 574 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:27,840 What is it? 575 00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:31,800 Manna from heaven. 576 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:34,320 God had done miracles galore. 577 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:35,680 You would think that the children of Israel 578 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:38,240 would have had a great faith in God yet 579 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:40,440 when you go back and read the Old Testament experience, 580 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:42,200 when they got to the wilderness, 581 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:43,480 the first time they had a problem, 582 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:44,800 they started doubting God. 583 00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:48,120 Their hearts were filled with unbelief. 584 00:26:48,120 --> 00:26:50,320 They didn't have any water. 585 00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:52,280 So they started belly aching and grumbling 586 00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:55,700 and complaining and blaming Moses. 587 00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:58,200 The Lord said, why do you tempt me? 588 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:00,320 The point being, if God can deliver them 589 00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:03,800 through a Red Sea, surely God can provide them 590 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:04,840 with some water. 591 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:08,920 Did they realize God could control the water? 592 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:11,000 Yes, they did. 593 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:14,000 But it started off doubting the ability of God 594 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:14,920 to meet their needs. 595 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:16,800 They went from doubt in their hearts 596 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:18,000 to grumbling in their hearts 597 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:20,900 and grumbling is basically a heart problem. 598 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:23,380 It's unbelief. 599 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:27,840 Then the grumbling hearts burst out 600 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:29,840 into complaining out of the outside. 601 00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:31,500 They started outwardly complaining. 602 00:27:31,500 --> 00:27:35,240 They went from outwardly complaining to openly rebelling. 603 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:37,280 Just, they had just gotten into the wilderness 604 00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:39,120 and had open rebellion. 605 00:27:39,120 --> 00:27:41,440 Their hearts became hard and they rebelled. 606 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:42,960 And so what did God do? 607 00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:43,980 God responded. 608 00:27:45,120 --> 00:27:46,600 That's what we see in verse 10. 609 00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:49,520 Wherefore I was greed with that generation 610 00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:52,960 and said they do always air in their heart 611 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:54,920 and they have not known my ways. 612 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:59,720 So I swear in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest. 613 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:01,240 Do you remember what happened? 614 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:02,240 They were grumbling. 615 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:03,320 They were complaining. 616 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:05,880 At one point they sent spies into the land 617 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:07,960 to see what Canaan land looked like. 618 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:10,900 12 spies went in and when they came back, 619 00:28:10,900 --> 00:28:13,280 they were united on the condition of the land 620 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:15,440 but not united to what would be done 621 00:28:16,360 --> 00:28:17,760 or what could be done. 622 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:19,680 Joshua and Caleb said something like, 623 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:20,720 the land is incredible. 624 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:22,280 God's giving us this land. 625 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:24,800 It's ours to take because God's on our side. 626 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,160 We can believe God for this place. 627 00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:28,760 It's a promised land. 628 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:32,400 He tells Joshua later on when Joshua takes over, 629 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:35,120 hey, everywhere that the souls of your feet go, 630 00:28:35,120 --> 00:28:36,640 that's gonna be yours. 631 00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:39,760 Who likes that real estate deal? 632 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:43,440 That's what God wanted for them. 633 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:47,720 But then the other 10 spies says, yeah, it's a great place 634 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:50,280 but there are giants in the land. 635 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:51,400 We can't go in there. 636 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:53,160 We won't make it. 637 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:55,840 They turned back to the wilderness. 638 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:56,680 Why? 639 00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:59,280 Because they were guilty of unbelief. 640 00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:02,480 They were guilty of unbelief. 641 00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:04,480 So for 40 years they wandered. 642 00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:06,480 They whined and they wandered. 643 00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:09,480 In fact, God told them that there was going to be 644 00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:11,280 a generation of them that couldn't go in 645 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:13,640 even if that is what they desired. 646 00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:16,120 And verse 17 tells us exactly what happens. 647 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:18,480 And it says about them, 648 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:21,120 whose carcass fell in the wilderness. 649 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:23,840 Every adult 20 years of age or older 650 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:27,160 that had been part of the rebellion against God died 651 00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:29,680 in the wilderness. 652 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:31,600 What an illustration. 653 00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:34,760 You get it with me? 654 00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:36,040 What an illustration. 655 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,160 God had so expressly showed his mercy to them. 656 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:42,960 Think of the plagues that he deployed 657 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:44,000 to get them out of Egypt. 658 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:47,320 Think of the sea he parted to get them away from Pharaoh. 659 00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:49,360 Think of the army he destroyed in their wake. 660 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:51,920 Think of the glory cloud he was leading them by 661 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:54,720 in the manna he was dropping into their plates. 662 00:29:56,680 --> 00:30:01,680 I grew up in church in the last 40 years. 663 00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:03,800 And when I was in children's church 664 00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:05,800 we had this thing called flannel graph. 665 00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:09,320 You guys remember flannel graph? 666 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:11,240 Okay, some of you don't. 667 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:15,520 And it was basically a felt board on an easel. 668 00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:20,520 Typically a senior lady or senior man 669 00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:26,880 teaching a bunch of little kids 670 00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:28,920 and they had these little cut out pieces. 671 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:33,440 If your church had some money, they were pre-colored. 672 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:38,240 If they were cheaper, the teacher had to color them. 673 00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:39,880 And then you put them on this felt board 674 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:40,880 and told the story. 675 00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:44,120 And I remember it always felt like every year or two 676 00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:47,240 we were in Exodus with the Israelites. 677 00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:50,880 And I remember as a kid thinking about, 678 00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:53,280 man, those Israelites were dumb. 679 00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:59,000 If I saw God part the red sea, 680 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:00,920 it'd be easy for me to believe in God. 681 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:03,400 I've never seen that, but it'd be easy for me to believe. 682 00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:08,400 If I had seen God beat Egypt with frogs, 683 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:13,400 what a cool way to take over frogs and flies and locusts. 684 00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:14,240 Who thinks that's pretty funny? 685 00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:17,800 I'm gonna beat them with frogs. 686 00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:21,640 If God could do that, if I saw God do that, 687 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:25,000 it'd be easy for me to believe in God. 688 00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:30,280 But yet they didn't believe. 689 00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:32,440 And here's what I wanna say to us. 690 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:34,320 The reason that this is in here, 691 00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:37,880 I wanna warn us not to look at the children of Israel 692 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:40,760 and go, oh yeah, that was dumb, I'd never do that. 693 00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:42,600 Who are we in the story? 694 00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:45,160 We're not Moses. 695 00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:51,560 We're not Aaron, we're not always Joshua. 696 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:54,760 Sometimes we're those grumbling and complaining Israelites. 697 00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:55,760 Are you with me? 698 00:31:57,960 --> 00:31:59,880 Jesus is in our history. 699 00:31:59,880 --> 00:32:02,760 He's not this thing that we know nothing about. 700 00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:04,880 He's not this thing that we're looking forward to 701 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:08,360 in the sense of his first coming, right? 702 00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:10,640 There's a lot of those things that those people 703 00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:14,760 in the Old Testament heard prophesied about Jesus coming 704 00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:16,120 and they didn't quite understand all of it. 705 00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:18,200 I was in the young adults class today 706 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:22,200 and we were going through the process of getting to Jesus. 707 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,880 And I was in the young adults class today 708 00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:28,880 and we were going through the process of getting to Jesus. 709 00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:31,840 We were going through John and Damon was teaching 710 00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:34,760 and he talked about how that some of the people 711 00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:36,360 when they heard Jesus speak and preach, 712 00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:38,880 they're like, yeah, but isn't Jesus gonna come from here 713 00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:39,880 and come from there? 714 00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:41,880 I mean, Christ when he comes, the Messiah when he comes, 715 00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:42,960 come from here, come from there. 716 00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:45,240 And they were confused, they were confused about exactly 717 00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:47,000 what that first coming would be like. 718 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,240 Can I tell you that there's not a lot of confusion 719 00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:52,120 you need to have about Jesus' first coming? 720 00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:53,800 He prophesied when he would be born, 721 00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:56,400 where he would be born, all of these things 722 00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:59,200 and we can see it as history. 723 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:03,200 And yet sometimes, even as a believer, 724 00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:06,040 how many of you guys know this as a word of God? 725 00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:09,920 How many of you know that if you follow this, 726 00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:12,360 God's gonna bless your life? 727 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:13,520 Do you always follow it? 728 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:16,720 Who are we? 729 00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:20,280 We're the children wandering in the wilderness. 730 00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:24,960 Anybody here ever get scared to do the right thing? 731 00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:26,960 Even though you know it's right to do? 732 00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:28,920 You know what that's called? 733 00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:31,640 An evil heart of unbelief. 734 00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:34,160 Are you with me? 735 00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:36,080 And so here's the warning. 736 00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:41,080 The warning is, if we think that they were unreasonable 737 00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:43,760 and stubborn, we need to understand that sometimes 738 00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:44,600 we're that way. 739 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:51,000 In these last days, God has spoken unto us by his son. 740 00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:54,920 The resurrection of Jesus Christ is not prophecy to us. 741 00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:55,760 It's history. 742 00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:58,440 We have thousands of years of Jesus's resume 743 00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:01,200 of transformation to check on. 744 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:02,800 We have all kinds of evidence that the Bible 745 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,080 is the word of God, yet at times we get scared 746 00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:06,760 of people and problems. 747 00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:10,040 We fight, what do we fight? 748 00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:10,880 Unbelief. 749 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:15,240 We send out of the wrong ideas and emotions 750 00:34:15,240 --> 00:34:18,480 that we are believing and keeping us from experiencing 751 00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:21,480 that abundant and rich spiritual inheritance 752 00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:23,960 that we have already been given, 753 00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:28,960 that we have already been given. 754 00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:31,920 And so, the simple message today, 755 00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,240 you have a familiar illustration number two, 756 00:34:34,240 --> 00:34:37,200 you have a practical application. 757 00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:38,040 Here it is. 758 00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:42,200 Three things, be cautious. 759 00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:43,200 Be cautious. 760 00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:44,360 Look at what he says. 761 00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:46,960 Take heed brethren. 762 00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:49,920 This is the second kind of section of the warnings 763 00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:51,480 that we find in Hebrews. 764 00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:54,440 This is similar to chapter two, verse one, 765 00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:57,440 where he says, therefore we ought to give more earnest heed 766 00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:58,640 to the things which we have heard, 767 00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:01,480 lest at any time we should let them slip. 768 00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:02,320 And he says in verse three, 769 00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:05,000 how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation? 770 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:05,960 He's warning them. 771 00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:07,480 Here he's saying, take heed. 772 00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:09,200 Here's another warning, brethren, 773 00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:11,520 lest there be in you an evil heart of unbelief 774 00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:15,760 and departing from the living God. 775 00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:17,120 The word departing here is the word 776 00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:19,000 from which we get our word apostasy. 777 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,160 Some have read this to mean that it's possible 778 00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:24,680 for saved people to apostasize and be lost again. 779 00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:27,240 In most of the passages in the Bible where this word 780 00:35:27,240 --> 00:35:29,680 for apostasy is used, it's referred to, 781 00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:32,160 it refers to those who have hourly professed faith 782 00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:35,280 in the Lord and at some point in time denounce their faith 783 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:37,160 in the Lord and go into open rebellion 784 00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:40,800 and doctrinal error and denial of the fundamentals 785 00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:41,800 of the faith. 786 00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:44,160 In fact, the Bible says that before the Lord Jesus Christ 787 00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:46,920 comes in the rapture, there will be a falling away 788 00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:51,120 and apostasy, people who were never genuinely saved. 789 00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:53,400 They just profess to be saved. 790 00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:55,120 But that's not the use of the word here. 791 00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:56,840 The word departing here really means 792 00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:59,120 just to step away from. 793 00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:02,120 He's not talking about apostasizing in the sense 794 00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:03,480 that you lose your salvation. 795 00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:05,520 He's talking about that you step away 796 00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:08,080 from the full blessing that God has for you 797 00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:09,920 as a born again child of God. 798 00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:12,720 What he's saying is don't step away, don't step back, 799 00:36:12,720 --> 00:36:15,600 step forward, go on. 800 00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:19,320 Don't make the mistakes that the disciples did. 801 00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:21,440 When you have the opportunity, and folks, 802 00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:23,200 we have the opportunity. 803 00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:25,280 When you have the opportunity to grow into all 804 00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:28,400 that God wants us to be, don't shy away because unbelief. 805 00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:29,960 Believe it. 806 00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:31,400 Move into it. 807 00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:33,280 Grow. 808 00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:34,120 Grow. 809 00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:35,040 God wants to transform your life. 810 00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:37,320 Believe Him for it. 811 00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:38,920 We see this all the time. 812 00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:41,240 People who start off and make a profession of faith 813 00:36:41,240 --> 00:36:42,720 and then drop out. 814 00:36:42,720 --> 00:36:45,680 Sometimes I wonder if many of these people are even saved. 815 00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:47,600 I think that some of these people who have professed faith 816 00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:50,880 in the Lord Jesus Christ and fall with the wayside, though, 817 00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:52,320 have never been truly saved. 818 00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:53,840 But I do know that there are some who 819 00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:55,480 have a real salvation experience. 820 00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:57,680 But when the problems and the difficulties and trials 821 00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:00,640 of life come along, sometimes they veer. 822 00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:02,240 They wander. 823 00:37:02,240 --> 00:37:06,880 They're not back in Egypt, but they're not in Canaan. 824 00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:09,840 They're wandering in the wilderness of defeat. 825 00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:10,840 You know people like that. 826 00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:12,160 I know people like that. 827 00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:13,120 Don't be like that. 828 00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:15,800 Be cautious. 829 00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:19,400 Courses can also apply to people who don't believe. 830 00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:20,800 Unbelief is a dangerous thing. 831 00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:23,480 Hardness of heart will lead to a lack of repentance, which 832 00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:24,800 is the only hope you have. 833 00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:27,000 Turn to Jesus and be saved. 834 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,280 So be cautious. 835 00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:30,800 Let her be. 836 00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:32,360 Be concerned. 837 00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:32,920 Be concerned. 838 00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:34,800 Look at verse 13. 839 00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:41,360 He says, instead of unbelief, instead of not departing, 840 00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:44,680 he says to do what? 841 00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:47,040 But be concerned. 842 00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:50,040 Exhort one another how often? 843 00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:51,280 Daily. 844 00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:56,880 But exhort one another daily. 845 00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:58,760 How often? 846 00:37:58,760 --> 00:37:59,560 Daily. 847 00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:00,880 Who needs encouragement daily? 848 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:06,920 You get tempted daily. 849 00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:09,560 You get tempted not to believe daily. 850 00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:10,800 You need encouragement daily. 851 00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:13,600 While it's called today, lest any of you 852 00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:17,120 be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 853 00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:22,680 What is this encouragement and relationship in these verses? 854 00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:28,840 It's a relationship to the evil heart of unbelief and sin. 855 00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:31,200 I wonder what might have happened to the children of Israel. 856 00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:33,960 Instead of grumbling and complaining and belly aching, 857 00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:36,240 they encourage one another. 858 00:38:36,240 --> 00:38:39,920 What if they had said to one another, how can we do this? 859 00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:40,720 We can trust God. 860 00:38:40,720 --> 00:38:42,040 God has let us this far. 861 00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:43,000 He's not going to let us down. 862 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:44,880 Come on, let's keep going. 863 00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:49,760 The Bible tells us to revoke one another to love and good works. 864 00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:53,520 He says here, exhort one another daily. 865 00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:56,120 Lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 866 00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:58,960 The word deceitful here means the trickery of sin. 867 00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:01,880 Do you know why many people fail to go on to all that God 868 00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:03,360 has for them? 869 00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:06,440 Because they fall for the mask that sin puts on. 870 00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:08,560 They fall for the trickery of sin. 871 00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:11,040 Sin will trick you into thinking that the deepest needs 872 00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:14,480 of your heart can be met by something or someone other 873 00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:17,280 than the Lord Jesus Christ. 874 00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:20,360 Sin is tricky. 875 00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:22,760 I want to encourage our leaders today. 876 00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:25,120 If you're a Sunday school leader, you're a deacon, 877 00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:27,360 you're a trustee, you're a de-group leader, 878 00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:29,160 you're a care group leader, I want 879 00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:33,080 you to be encouragers of the people that God's entrusted 880 00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:35,160 to your care. 881 00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:39,560 I can't do for this whole church what 882 00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:42,080 needs to be done in terms of helping 883 00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:46,080 to do what this verse says to do. 884 00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:47,880 Are you with me? 885 00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:54,040 Our staff cannot do all that it takes to help encourage. 886 00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:56,360 You know what the Bible says? 887 00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:59,400 It's not just some holy class of people. 888 00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:00,640 We're not holy. 889 00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:04,760 Listen, if you haven't got this, I was about to say I'm normal. 890 00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:09,760 I'm not quite normal. 891 00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:10,760 I'm just a dude. 892 00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:17,000 I'm just a person. 893 00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:18,640 I can't do ever. 894 00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:21,040 I am not your sole answer to what you need. 895 00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:23,280 Jesus is your answer. 896 00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:25,840 Jesus is your answer. 897 00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:28,160 And I'm not saying it because I think everybody thinks that. 898 00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:32,800 I'm just saying I'm going to let you down. 899 00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:36,640 Sometimes I'm tempted to go back to the wilderness. 900 00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:40,440 Sometimes I don't believe. 901 00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:41,400 Not that Jesus has got. 902 00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:44,320 I'm saying in the moment of temptation, are you with me? 903 00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:45,800 Are you there? 904 00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:46,720 I am a sinner. 905 00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:52,360 I'm a sinner. 906 00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:53,160 So are you. 907 00:40:56,160 --> 00:40:59,040 But we have the Holy Spirit living inside of us. 908 00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:02,120 And we have the church, this assembly, 909 00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:04,160 the reason you need to show up when we show up 910 00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:07,720 is because we need to provoke one another to love 911 00:41:07,720 --> 00:41:08,960 and to good works. 912 00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:10,880 I need it every day. 913 00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:11,720 And so do you. 914 00:41:11,720 --> 00:41:13,680 Are you with me? 915 00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:16,720 You need it. 916 00:41:16,720 --> 00:41:19,000 Church family, when you see a Christian friend 917 00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:21,720 slacking a little bit, I'm not saying let's be legalistic. 918 00:41:21,720 --> 00:41:24,960 I'm saying encourage, help. 919 00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:25,920 Come on, we can do that. 920 00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:29,240 Let's get everything in store that God has in store for us. 921 00:41:29,240 --> 00:41:30,800 You know how the temptation to sin works? 922 00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:32,360 Sin and Satan lie to us. 923 00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:34,400 Sometimes we lie to ourselves. 924 00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:36,160 We're tempted to believe thoughts like, oh man, 925 00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:37,880 it's no big deal. 926 00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:40,640 We're tempted to believe like, oh Jesus has already 927 00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:41,520 forgiven it. 928 00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:42,320 This won't bother me. 929 00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:43,280 This won't affect me. 930 00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:49,920 Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 931 00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:52,760 God forbid. 932 00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:54,600 You try it immediately. 933 00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:59,520 Sometimes the temptation says, you don't have to do it again. 934 00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:01,080 Just go ahead and try it. 935 00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:03,360 You try it and immediately the devil says, now you've done it. 936 00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:04,240 It's all over for you. 937 00:42:04,240 --> 00:42:05,480 There's no hope for you. 938 00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:08,480 Don't be tricked by sin or the devil. 939 00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:10,160 Let her see be confident. 940 00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:12,080 Look at verse 14. 941 00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:14,240 Don't get lost in the weeds here with me. 942 00:42:14,240 --> 00:42:19,400 He says in verse 14, for we are made partakers of Christ 943 00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:21,600 if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast 944 00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:22,160 to the end. 945 00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:24,440 It always means if you've partaken in Christ, 946 00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:26,400 the evidence of the fact that you have Christ in you 947 00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:29,840 is that you will persevere to the end. 948 00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:31,520 We don't do it so that we are in Christ. 949 00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:34,400 We do it because we are in Christ. 950 00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:37,920 Partaker here means a joint owner in the business. 951 00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:40,120 The words used five times in Hebrews. 952 00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:42,920 It's used one other time in the New Testament in Luke 5.7 953 00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:45,720 when it talks about someone being fishing partners. 954 00:42:45,720 --> 00:42:47,640 What he's saying is let's go on. 955 00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:49,320 We're joint owners with Jesus Christ 956 00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:51,320 in the great enterprise of Christianity, 957 00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:54,240 which is the great enterprise of bringing people to faith 958 00:42:54,240 --> 00:42:55,720 in the Lord Jesus Christ. 959 00:42:55,720 --> 00:42:58,720 If you become a wilderness Christian instead of a canine 960 00:42:58,720 --> 00:43:00,920 Christian and you cannot realize your participation 961 00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:02,880 in the great enterprise of redemption, which 962 00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:05,080 God is carrying on in this world. 963 00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:07,640 He says in verse 14, we're made partakers in Christ 964 00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:10,680 if we hold beginning of our confidence steadfast 965 00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:11,240 in the end. 966 00:43:11,240 --> 00:43:13,840 That word confidence is the word title deed. 967 00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:16,640 That is in Christ, we have a title deed of salvation. 968 00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:21,000 He's saying to get everything that the title deed gives to you. 969 00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:28,920 Go on, be a full blown mature reproducing Christian. 970 00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:31,080 We must believe God for all that he promised, 971 00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:35,680 not only for our salvation, but for our sanctification. 972 00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:38,320 That's the point. 973 00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:40,280 We're saved by faith. 974 00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:42,080 We're sanctified by faith. 975 00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:45,160 And so that leads me to this third part. 976 00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:48,720 And that's a section number three, an urgent summary. 977 00:43:48,720 --> 00:43:50,480 An urgent summary. 978 00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:52,800 We have a familiar illustration. 979 00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:55,280 We have a practical application. 980 00:43:55,280 --> 00:44:02,600 Be careful, be confident, be encouraging. 981 00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:04,200 Section number three, an urgent summary. 982 00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:04,800 Here it is. 983 00:44:08,240 --> 00:44:18,680 Verse 15, Walid has said, today, today, today, today, 984 00:44:18,680 --> 00:44:28,200 today, not tomorrow, not yesterday, today, 985 00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:32,080 if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, 986 00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:35,280 as in the day of provocation. 987 00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:37,160 We see two things in these last few verses. 988 00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:38,960 Number one, we see urgency. 989 00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:40,680 The writer repeats the scripture he's already 990 00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:43,880 quoted from Psalm 95 saying the word today. 991 00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:49,880 You see that word in verse seven, today. 992 00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:55,920 You see it in verse 15, today. 993 00:44:55,920 --> 00:45:01,360 You see it in verse 13, today. 994 00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:05,720 The Bible uses this word today to give us a message to the saved, 995 00:45:05,720 --> 00:45:08,520 where you have come from and how you have grown in the past 996 00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:10,160 is important, of course. 997 00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:13,240 But where are you at today? 998 00:45:13,240 --> 00:45:18,960 What is your heart with Jesus like today? 999 00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:21,000 Are you with me? 1000 00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:24,360 Where are you at? 1001 00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:25,360 There's an urgency. 1002 00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:27,240 Do you know when it's time for you to make up your mind 1003 00:45:27,240 --> 00:45:30,560 that you're going to go on and be everything God wants you to be? 1004 00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:31,720 And what I mean by that is that you're 1005 00:45:31,720 --> 00:45:33,480 going to allow Jesus to do that in you. 1006 00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:35,120 You're going to partner with him. 1007 00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:35,600 How? 1008 00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:37,280 By faith. 1009 00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:37,880 By faith. 1010 00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:39,240 He's the one that does it. 1011 00:45:39,240 --> 00:45:41,840 We just submit to what he's doing. 1012 00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:44,240 When do you need to do that? 1013 00:45:44,240 --> 00:45:45,120 I'll do it tomorrow. 1014 00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:52,440 Next week, you know what? 1015 00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:56,440 You may not have the opportunity next week. 1016 00:45:56,440 --> 00:46:00,080 You may not have the opportunity tomorrow. 1017 00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:01,520 What is it? 1018 00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:03,720 It's today, today. 1019 00:46:03,720 --> 00:46:05,640 That leads us to this second thing. 1020 00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:08,520 He's urgent about this summary of what he's been saying. 1021 00:46:08,520 --> 00:46:09,720 You have an urgency. 1022 00:46:09,720 --> 00:46:10,520 You have a summary. 1023 00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:11,680 What does it say? 1024 00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:13,960 While it is said today, if you will hear his voice, 1025 00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:16,880 harden not your hearts as in the day of provocation. 1026 00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:19,960 For some, when they had heard, they did provoke. 1027 00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:22,560 How be it not all that came out of Egypt by Moses, 1028 00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:25,040 but with whom was he grieved 40 years? 1029 00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:29,080 Was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcasses fell 1030 00:46:29,080 --> 00:46:30,680 in the wilderness? 1031 00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:34,120 And to whom swear he that they should not enter into his rest, 1032 00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:36,300 but because they believe not, see we 1033 00:46:36,300 --> 00:46:38,920 that they could not enter in. 1034 00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:42,560 So we see that they could not enter in because of what? 1035 00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:43,280 Unbelief. 1036 00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:48,120 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. 1037 00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:51,880 This is the summary statement of which he is so concerned. 1038 00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:55,640 It must be of utmost concern to us as well. 1039 00:46:55,640 --> 00:47:00,080 Where are you at in terms of your heart towards God? 1040 00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:03,080 What are you believing in right now about your sin 1041 00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:03,920 and your Savior? 1042 00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:08,920 Today is the high water mark of your walking with the Lord 1043 00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:14,600 sometime in the past, or is it today? 1044 00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:20,480 Was there a time in your relationship with God, 1045 00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:23,640 in your fellowship with God, in your love for the Lord, 1046 00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:26,760 in your passion for his mission and ministry? 1047 00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:31,760 Was there a time in your past that was greater than it is now? 1048 00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:34,520 Has your love for the Lord and passion 1049 00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:36,200 for the things of the Lord waned? 1050 00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:39,000 Nobody would tell us? 1051 00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:43,000 Maybe that identifies some kind of heart of unbelief. 1052 00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:49,360 And maybe what the Spirit is trying to say to you 1053 00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:54,360 through this text today is, today, today, let's do the things, 1054 00:47:56,760 --> 00:47:59,200 the works in keeping with repentance. 1055 00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:02,760 Let's adorn the transformation that Jesus wants to do 1056 00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:04,080 in our lives well. 1057 00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:08,720 What will keep us out of the promised land 1058 00:48:08,720 --> 00:48:11,000 of the victorious Christian life 1059 00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:13,320 that is marked by being transformed 1060 00:48:13,320 --> 00:48:15,360 and helping others in that process, 1061 00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:19,000 of believing God for all that he wants to do? 1062 00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:24,000 What is it that's gonna keep us from this transformation? 1063 00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:25,680 It's a heart of unbelief. 1064 00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:30,680 Jesus is incredible at transformation. 1065 00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:36,360 He has come to dwell in us as his house. 1066 00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:40,160 He is in us if we are saved, and if we are saved, 1067 00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:42,560 he will continue to work on us to the end. 1068 00:48:42,560 --> 00:48:46,160 That is his part in the transformation process. 1069 00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:47,840 What is our part? 1070 00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:49,760 Our part is to believe. 1071 00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:51,760 Our part is faith. 1072 00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:53,760 Our part is to believe. 1073 00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:56,680 Our part is faith. 1074 00:48:56,680 --> 00:48:59,080 Our part is like I talked about last week. 1075 00:48:59,080 --> 00:49:03,680 Jesus said, abide, abide in me. 1076 00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:06,160 Remain in me. 1077 00:49:12,580 --> 00:49:16,440 Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. 1078 00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:21,440 You need to be in God's word every day. 1079 00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:29,320 And not to read it to check it off the list. 1080 00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:32,520 You need to read it to understand it, 1081 00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:37,560 and to obey it, and to share it, 1082 00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:40,320 and to know it, and to love it, 1083 00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:45,320 and to share it with others, that's the secret. 1084 00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:50,440 Believe. 1085 00:49:51,880 --> 00:49:53,120 If it's not getting in your head, 1086 00:49:53,120 --> 00:49:54,520 it won't get to your heart. 1087 00:49:57,640 --> 00:49:59,760 You need more than what you can get 1088 00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:01,700 in the service times at this church. 1089 00:50:01,700 --> 00:50:06,040 You need that too, but you need God's word every day, 1090 00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:08,280 and we need to help each other do that. 1091 00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:11,440 We need to encourage one another to do that, 1092 00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:14,960 because there is such a thing as the deceitfulness of sin. 1093 00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:18,600 There is such a thing as wilderness wandering. 1094 00:50:20,280 --> 00:50:22,800 What will keep us out of the promised land 1095 00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:25,000 of victorious Christian life 1096 00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:26,800 that's marked by being transformed 1097 00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:29,640 and helping others in that process of believing God 1098 00:50:29,640 --> 00:50:31,200 for all that he wants to do. 1099 00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:33,240 It is this heart of unbelief. 1100 00:50:33,240 --> 00:50:35,560 It's a lack of faith and trust in God. 1101 00:50:35,560 --> 00:50:38,120 It's thinking that we can do it on our own. 1102 00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:41,760 It's thinking we can do life on our own. 1103 00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:44,120 It's thinking that our sin is no big deal. 1104 00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:47,480 It's thinking that you can live in the Christian life 1105 00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:52,240 without spending time with God, with God's people, 1106 00:50:52,240 --> 00:50:53,800 with seeking direction. 1107 00:50:55,160 --> 00:50:59,560 So I say, with the writer of Hebrews, 1108 00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:06,560 to myself first and to us today, if you regard sin in your heart, 1109 00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:13,400 repent today, if you'll hear his voice, 1110 00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:19,120 heart and not your heart. 1111 00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:21,880 Today, if you're not saved, 1112 00:51:21,880 --> 00:51:25,760 repent and believe in Jesus. 1113 00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:28,880 Today, if you're trying to do all of this Christian life 1114 00:51:28,880 --> 00:51:33,880 on your own, repent, repent and believe in Jesus, 1115 00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:39,320 not just for your salvation, 1116 00:51:41,040 --> 00:51:45,840 but for transformation and for ministry. 1117 00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:47,720 Yesterday is gone. 1118 00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:51,280 Tomorrow is not guaranteed. 1119 00:51:51,280 --> 00:51:53,280 Today is the day. 1120 00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:58,280 Today is time for us to believe today. 1121 00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:24,280 Today, would you bow your heads and close your eyes with me?